Richardson Basically Claims Goodell Is His lil' B**ch

[Delhommey]

“I think it is worthwhile for you and I to reflect just a little bit on an example of us trying to go to bat for the city,” Richardson told council members in January, according to Spanberg. “You know I went to bat for you in the DNC, I think, as strongly as possible. And I think you will agree, too.

“I have a good relationship with (the other) NFL owners, but we did a calculation and that would have cost every owner about $3 million to do that, including me. I try to get votes, that is one of the things that is real important in the NFL” — here one can only imagine the tears forming in council members’ eyes as they empathized with the task of collecting votes — “and that just wasn’t going to happen. So I called the (NFL) commissioner and said, ‘Just listen to me until I finish. Can you visualize Mount Everest and just moving it 100 feet to your left?’

“I said, ‘Do you have that visual?’ And he said, ‘I do and that is very difficult.’ And I said, ‘My request is very difficult.’ He said, ‘What is your request?’ I said, ‘I would like for you to move the opening game of the season (to Wednesday).’ I thought he was going to have a heart attack when I asked him the question. Then he said, ‘Well, you know, we’ll have to take this to the membership.’ And I said, ‘That is my second point. I would like for us not to take it to the membership ... I was chairman of the committee that selected you as commissioner and I’m expecting you to take some leadership.’ ”

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[Gucci Mane]

already posted...

[rayzor]

"I was chairman of the committee that selected you as commissioner and I’m expecting you to take some leadership."

when that man talks, you listen.

[Dex]

Thought you ment Sheldon lol.

[jtnc]

Now if he could only get on his ass about the refs phantom calls against us....

[panther4life]

Richardson is an odd cat. I attended some event they do for their sponsors roughly 9 years ago where they feed you lunch, let you watch practice and then have players sign autographs. He also spoke and when introducing his son's up to the podium he kissed them on the lips. Everybody just had a big wtf?!? look on their face.